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Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a tool designed to investigate how a proposed program, project, policy, or plan may impact health and well-being and inform decision makers of these potential outcomes before the decision is made. HIA can also be used as an approach to engage the community as a stakeholder and to coproduce recommendations to improve community health.
1. Community Action Roadmap
Saphique Thomas, EPA's Region 5 Office
This presentation will discuss EPA Region 5’s Community Action Roadmap, which incorporates HIA’s six steps. The Community Action Roadmap is a tool used by EPA Region 5 (serving Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, and 35 Tribes) for assessing and addressing cumulative impacts through a collaborative and community-focused process with governmental and non-governmental partners.
2. Principles of Health Impact Assessment
Joel Hoffman and Katie Williams, EPA's Office of Research and Development
Meaningful community engagement is critical to addressing health and well-being disparities when developing solutions to environmental problems. This presentation will discuss the principles of HIA, demonstrate how HIA supports community-engaged problem formulation and research, and illustrate how conducting the health assessment can serve to integrate community knowledge into the process and foster community-based recommendations to improve community well-being outcomes.